Title
Neural Pruning Search for Real-Time Object Detection of Autonomous Vehicles
Abstract
Object detection plays an important role in self-driving cars for security development. However, mobile systems on self-driving cars with limited computation resources lead to difficulties for object detection. To facilitate this, we propose a compiler-aware neural pruning search framework to achieve high-speed inference on autonomous vehicles for 2D and 3D object detection. The framework automatically searches the pruning scheme and rate for each layer to find a best-suited pruning for optimizing detection accuracy and speed performance under compiler optimization. Our experiments demonstrate that for the first time, the proposed method achieves (close-to) real-time, 55ms and 97ms inference times for YOLOv4 based 2D object detection and PointPillars based 3D detection, respectively, on an off-the-shelf mobile phone with minor (or no) accuracy loss.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/DAC18074.2021.9586163
2021 58TH ACM/IEEE DESIGN AUTOMATION CONFERENCE (DAC)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
real-time, object detection, autonomous driving
Conference
0738-100X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Pu Zhao13211.73
Geng Yuan293.80
Yuxuan Cai322.05
Wei Niu42411.21
Qi Liu5173.67
Wujie Wen600.34
Bin Ren78218.03
Yanzhi Wang81082136.11
Xue Lin98614.97